Toast, Monopoly and Scotch Bonnets

Here we have it....another few stories to add to the ever growing pack of Edinburgh Antics. As we were all poor (and still are....) lowly people living up in Edinburgh, we decided to entertain ourselves most evenings so as not to 1. Drink ourselves into oblivion by 5pm every night and 2. Not to spend money we all didn't have.

As I previously mentioned, I was living with 1 other girl and 8 guys so, of course, many a joke had to be played... One 'joke' that stands out quite vividly for me is one that happened quite early on. Bedside was dared to eat 6 pieces of buttered toast in 10 minutes. Easy. Anyone would think so....surely. Well, said challenge was accepted and after the first 4 pieces, he couldn't handle anymore. Everyone just assumed he was being a massive wimp, so, P'ree accepted the challenge of 2 pieces in 1 minute. Half a piece down and he too gave up. Magic then stepped up to the mark of 1 piece in 30 seconds. Half a piece later and he also gave up. What we failed to realise was sat in the corner were Dogwig and Tophalf giggling away to themselves.... they had only gone and smothered the butter with salt..... and given Bedside salt poisoning in the process. Poor guy had to throw his life up a few times, turn green and hide away under a duvet for the rest of the night. BOYS.... Jokes can sometimes go too far.... maybe this was one of those times. 

In Edinburgh, as I am sure a lot of you know, it rains.... too much. So, to keep ourselves entertained we decided to play a game of Monopoly. Not normal Monopoly I might add, no, they wanted to play drinking Monopoly. The rules went as followed
1. If you roll over a 6....drink
2. if you pass go...drink
3. if you land on someone elses property....drink
4. if you land on free parking....drink a shot of whiskey 

.....and so it continued. Myself and Little Leaf couldnt keep up so went for a nap. When we came back there were only 2 players left in the game and 2 bottles of gin, a bottle of whiskey, 1 bottle of red wine, 1 bottle of white and 1 bottle of tequila along with about 12 cans of beer all gone and 4 very drunk men trying to beat each other at a never ending drinking game......all before 9pm. 

And finally, another way to keep ourselves entertained was the the use of comedy. One day, Bedside came back to the apartment with a bag of Scotch Bonnet Chillies. These chillies are the 7th hottest in the world and he challenged Magic to do the Scotch Bonnet challenge. This challenge consisted of taking the stalk off the chilli, putting it in whole in your mouth, chew it for 30 seconds, swallow and not drink anything for 5 mins. This was an insanely funny 5 minutes for everyone apart from Magic as he got the hiccups, eyes streaming, runny nose, the whole shabang whilst trying to explain to the camera exactly what was happening. It got even more insane when Dogwig said "He wouldnt do another one"....never challenge Magic, he WILL accept it, so in he popped another chilli much to our amusement and horror. I have honestly never seen anyone look in so much pain for the next 3 hours. Lesson to oneself? NEVER do the Scotch Bonnet challenge, you will get laughed at.